diff --git a/docs/releasenotes/2.7.0.rst b/docs/releasenotes/2.7.0.rst
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-Pillow 2.7.0
-============
+2.7.0
+=====
 
 Sane Plugin
 -----------
diff --git a/docs/releasenotes/2.8.0.rst b/docs/releasenotes/2.8.0.rst
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+2.8.0
+=====
+
+Open HTTP response objects with Image.open
+------------------------------------------
+
+HTTP response objects returned from `urllib2.urlopen(url)` or `requests.get(url, stream=True).raw` are 'file-like' but do not support `.seek()` operations. As a result PIL was unable to open them as images, requiring a wrap in `cStringIO` or `BytesIO`.
+
+Now new functionality has been added to `Image.open()` by way of an `.seek(0)` check and catch on exception `AttributeError` or `io.UnsupportedOperation`. If this is caught we attempt to wrap the object using `io.BytesIO` (which will only work on buffer-file-like objects).
+
+This allows opening of files using both `urllib2` and `requests`, e.g.::
+
+    Image.open(urllib2.urlopen(url))
+    Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)